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as in paralyzed
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
the malfunctioning of a single component can incapacitate the engine
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as in crippled
to cause severe or permanent injury to
the stroke left her completely incapacitated
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Recent Examples of incapacitated
Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
In his incapacitated state, does Aegon know Aemond deliberately attacked and burned him?
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 July 2024
Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
This is also true if your friend has passed away or is incapacitated and can no longer use their Facebook.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
The second was that political observers — after noting that Trump was otherwise undamaged or incapacitated — began mulling over how the incident would affect the November election.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
In his incapacitated state, does Aegon know Aemond deliberately attacked and burned him?
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 July 2024
Verb
But today, forms of dementia like frontotemporal dementia, which affects the temporal lobes of the brain, have left her permanently incapacitated.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
This is also true if your friend has passed away or is incapacitated and can no longer use their Facebook.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incapacitated
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The law prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified applicants based on disability and ensures that disabled individuals have equal access to job opportunities.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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Many disabled individuals face not only physical pain but also profound psychological scars and societal rejection in Gaza, international and local medical professionals said.Diaa Ostaz, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
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What can’t be regained is the time wasted by being paralyzed with fear.Mark Kane, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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McBrain has dealt with health issues in recent years, including suffering a stroke in 2023 that paralyzed the right side of his body and threatened his drumming career.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
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Its main proxy, Hezbollah, was crippled by a pager attack on its hierarchy, and then by weeks of vicious airstrikes.Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Ongoing attacks have crippled Gaza's water and sanitation systems, depriving children of safe water and endangering their health.Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Lions are a brilliant team to this point with what appears to be an unstoppable offense and a resilient but severely injured defense.Steve Silverman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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An extraordinarily valuable racehorse, alone in his stall one night, was fatally injured.GrrlScientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The investigation reveals a dismal picture of a company with a sales culture that depends on squeezing infirm and elderly patients and the government for every penny.Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
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The team’s droll, imperturbable manager, Dave Roberts, spent much of his summer issuing medical briefings on infirm pitchers.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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The antihero actioner earned a feeble $4.7 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,211 locations.J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
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Those with muscle dysmorphia usually have a belief or preoccupation that their body is weak, feeble, too small, or not muscular enough.Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
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Congress should reaffirm the CRA by recognizing that agency guidance is invalid unless submitted to both Congress and GAO.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The 63-year-old's motion, filed Wednesday, argues that his original guilty plea to a conspiracy charge is invalid because the count was later dismissed by the court, rendering the outcome unconstitutional.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Capasa noted that a negative third quarter impacted by weak internal demand, the slowdown of purchases from Chinese customers and overall geopolitical instability kept worsening the cautious scenario already registered in the first half of the year.Sandra Salibian, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
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Scene-to-scene continuity is typically weak and telling.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Incapacitated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incapacitated. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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